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Posted by Bill Keys   
Previous versions of the nas package were vulnerable to a number of buffer overflows, NULL and invalid pointers, and an int overflow. Foresight Linux is not vulnerable to any of these by default, as Foresight does not ship the initscript which starts the nas daemon.
Foresight Linux Essential Advisory: 2007-0007-1
Published: 2007-04-03

Rating: Informational

Updated Versions:
     nas=/conary.rpath.com at rpl:devel/1.8b-1-2
     group-dist=/foresight.rpath.org at fl:1-devel//1/1.1-0.12-1

References:
     https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1155
     http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1543
     http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1544
     http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1545
     http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1546
     http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1547

Description:
     Previous versions of the nas package were vulnerable to a number of buffer 
overflows, NULL and invalid pointers, and an int overflow. Foresight Linux is 
not vulnerable to any of these by default, as Foresight does not ship the 
initscript which starts the nas daemon.
 
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